Hananah Zaheer
Hananah is the author of Lovebirds (Bull City Press, 2021). Other writing has appeared in places such as Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions 2021, Alaska Quarterly, AGNI, Pithead Chapel, Smokelong etc. She serves as a Fiction Editor for Los Angeles Review, and as senior editor for SAAG: a dissident literary anthology. More at hananahzaheer.com.
Poetry
a defiance
i claim to write no ghazals (i am not you) because my language, once removed, is stilted (i am told)…
What if
I was the one, suspended in a life I had spun with my own mouth amidst trees I trusted to